Following feedback, I have written a summary of the series of four blogposts looking at structural (essentially, socio-political)...

“To provide a basis for understanding the determinants of disease and arriving at rational treatments and patterns of health care, a...

Improved medical education has frequently been cited as a potential means of improving patient-centred care and increasing patient...

"[...] I believe that there are areas where injustice is normal, and that the only way to reveal what is involved in epistemic justice...

“The privileged are simply less likely to believe claims about oppression when they come from those who actually experience it”. Nora...

“O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!” Sir Walter Scott. 'Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field'...

“People go to war for ideas, not for evidence.” Gordon Waddell in: White, P. (ed) (2005). 'Biopsychosocial medicine: An integrated...

"Wherever power is at work, we should be ready to ask who or what is controlling whom, and why". Miranda Fricker (2007). ‘Epistemic...

Or: The biopsychosocial model, ‘medically unexplained symptoms’ (including ME/CFS) and welfare reform This extended blogpost simply...

Back in December, I (again) emailed NHS Digital to ask them to remove inaccurate and potentially harmful information from their ME/CFS...

Intersectionality is a concept that arose out of what I would consider critical social sciences (notably, the work of Black feminist...

On 10 November, NICE released its long-awaited draft of the guidelines on diagnosis and management of myalgic encephalomyelitis...

Let’s go back to where we started (factor#1), with the biopsychosocial model. This model rather ironically arose as a means of making...

Epistemic humility is a form of epistemic justice that encourages an individual to be epistemically humble, that is, to recognise the...

On 30 October, NICE published a scope for its guidelines on Long Covid diagnosis and management. This scope was drawn up in association...

Patients with medically unexplained or unmanageable symptoms challenge the health services and medical profession on a number of grounds....

Evidence-based medicine is a much-lauded concept in health services and allegedly draws from three pillars: best available research...

A rather uncomfortable truth in healthcare is that there exists a hierarchy of disease and, by extension, hierarchy of patients within...

The term integrated care is often used to describe initiatives aiming to deliver increasingly joined-up care, which is arguably of...

Trigger warning: death, suicide Some Long Covid patients have expressed their realisation that, unless they are considered at high risk...